Trump: The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization…31 May 2020 In 2019, Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03) , Afghan War veteran , sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Ray requesting the FBI add a new subsection to its list of extremist ideologies that would include Antifa. This paves the …
Minnesota National Guard Soldiers and Airmen stood guard overnight alongside local law enforcement, protecting Minnesota’s Capitol area. Throughout the night, Soldiers and Airmen completed 18 missions to include providing security for hospitals and escorting ambulances. It's been a long night for Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen. pic.twitter.com/ePMw3Cgsh3— MN National Guard (@MNNationalGuard) May 31, 2020 As of this …
Combat Photographer: Vietnam through the lens of Marine Corporal William T. Perkins, Jr. By Frank Blazich curator in the Division of Armed Forces History. The Vietnam War was the nation’s first televised war. Within hours, combat footage of young Americans in uniform in the jungles of South Vietnam could be seen in living rooms across the …
Spotlight: The Last Footage Shot by Medal of Honor Recipient Marine Cpl. Perkins Cpl William Thomas Perkins Perkins enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in April of 1966, was discharged and enlisted in the Regular Marine Corps in July of the same year. He served first as a still picture photographer and then as a …
The March on the Pentagon, 1967 WASH, D.C. DEMO Violence at the Pentagon, more than six-hundred persons arrested, and the general feeling that everyone lost are the parts and sum of a two-day anti-Vietnam-War demonstration in the nation’s capital. Vietnam war protests 1967 On October 21, 1967, an estimated crowd of 100,000 gathered by the …
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch: ‘A Great Day for America’ Anna Heiney NASA A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy …
Minnesota national guard official website photo The Minnesota National Guard is “All In” Overnight, Governor Tim Walz authorized the Minnesota National Guard to activate an additional 1,000 soldiers to support civil authorities. Last night, an additional 200 soldiers were activated, bringing the total to more than 700 soldiers and airmen on state active duty just …
Emissaries of the German government surrendered on 7 May 1945, at General Eisenhower’s Headquarters in Reims, France. The next day, 8 May, was designated as V-E Day (Victory in Europe), the official end of the war in Europe. The American contributions to the liberation of Europe had been predominant in both manpower and as an …
